From: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
To: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>, sashiko-reviews@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] KVM: s390: pci: Validate AIBV and AISB before pinning guest pages
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0dae69e7-8161-46e7-bef2-edabefd93fea@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fea9882a-b41f-42a3-b30b-37d6a40af127@linux.ibm.com>
>> [Severity: Critical]
>> Does this calculation underestimate the true byte footprint of the bit
>> vector
>> when aibvo is non-zero?
>>
>> If a guest provides msi_vecs = 64, aibvo = 63, and an aibv GPA with a
>> page
>> offset of 4081, the calculated size is 15 bytes instead of 16. The npages
>> calculation yields DIV_ROUND_UP(4081 + 15, 4096) = 1, which incorrectly
>> passes the npages > 1 boundary check.
>>
>> This would result in KVM pinning only one page, but the hardware could
>> access
>> the 16th byte, writing to the first byte of the next unpinned host
>> physical
>> page, which could lead to host memory corruption.
>
> I think Sashiko does have a valid point here (sigh...). The right fix
> would be to correctly round up both msi_vecs and aibvo bits so:
>
> size = BITS_TO_LONGS(msi_vecs + fib->fmt0.aibvo) * sizeof(unsigned long);
>
> and remove size += (fib->fmt0.aibvo / 8);
>
Yeah, that sounds right to me.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-23 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-23 18:34 [PATCH v5 0/6] KVM s390x PCI fixes Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:34 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] KVM: s390: pci: Reject adapter interrupt forwarding if already enabled Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-23 18:34 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] KVM: s390: pci: Fix memory accounting for pinned/unpinned pages Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-23 20:26 ` Matthew Rosato
2026-07-23 18:34 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] KVM: s390: pci: Fix missing error codes and memory unaccounting Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:43 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-23 18:34 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] KVM: s390: pci: Fix NULL dereference on AIBV allocation failure Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-23 18:34 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] KVM: s390: pci: Fix resource leak on IRQ registration failure Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:42 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-23 18:34 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] KVM: s390: pci: Validate AIBV and AISB before pinning guest pages Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 18:48 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-23 19:50 ` Farhan Ali
2026-07-23 20:14 ` Matthew Rosato [this message]
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